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Painting & Drawing
International Contemporary Art 
06 July 2012
 
GALERIE EMMANUEL POST, Berlin
Kavi Gupta BERLIN
MAERZ MOLDE, Molde Norway
GALERIE MARTIN JANDA, Vienna
 
 
 
GALERIE EMMANUEL POST, Berlin
 
 
Sebastian Gögel, Boulevard, 2012
 
Sebastian Gögel
Boulevard, 2012
oil on canvas
230 x 170 cm
Courtesy of Galerie Emmanuel Post, Berlin
 
 
SEBASTIAN GÖGEL
Boulevard
 
July 7 - September 1, 2012
 
We are pleased to announce the fifth solo exhibition Boulevard by the Leipzig artist Sebastian Gögel of his most recent mid- and large-format paintings.
 
Corresponding to the real boulevard as a place of social interconnections and entanglement, Gögel's 'Boulevard' accommodates a cosmos of social prototypes in a telling display. Stylized portraits make their appearance next to abstract figurations. Radical attitudes and hierarchies are claimed and abandoned in his work. With hazardous intent, grotesquely morbid grimaces are united with blithely humorous elegance in a circus of crumbling beauty made up of urban facades.
 
Sebastian Gögel, born in Sonneberg, Thuringia, Germany, in 1978, lives and works in Leipzig. From 1997 to 2002, he studied painting/graphic arts at the Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig. From 2002 to 2005, he pursued his post-graduate studies with Prof. Sighard Gille.
 
Collections (selection): Arario Collection, Korea; Gemeentemuseum, The Hague; Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam; Sammlung Hildebrand, Leipzig; Sparkasse Leipzig; Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Kunstfonds; Zabludowicz Art Trust.
 
Solo exhibitions (selection): 2011: Galerie Laurent Mueller, Paris; Parrotta Contemporary Art, Stuttgart; Kunsthalle Erfurt; 2010: Galerie Emmanuel Post, Leipzig; Galerie Adler, Frankfurt/Main; 2008: GEM, Museum of Contemporary Art, The Hague.
 
Group exhibitions (selection): 2012: Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam; Seong-Nam Arts Center, Seoul; Galerie Rothamel, Erfurt; Gemeentemuseum, The Hague; PrintRoom, Rotterdam; 2011: Galerie Emmanuel Post, Berlin; Galerie Kleindienst, Leipzig; Kunsthalle der Sparkasse Leipzig; 2010: ‹THE DISASTERS OF PEACE›, Umspannwerk Berlin-Tiergarten, Berlin; Zabludowicz Collection, London; Fourteen30 Contemporary, Portland; Charlie Smith, London; 2009: Post Fine Arts, Freiburg/Br.; Cobra Museum of Modern Art, Amstelveen; 2007: Gemeentemuseum, The Hague; 2006: Arario Gallery, Cheonan, Korea; 2004: Union Gallery, London.
 
The exhibition 'The Collection. German Art from Kiefer to Henning' at the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, runs until September 30, 2012. The exhibition 'GERMAN NOW; from Leipzig' at the Seong-Nam Arts Center, Seoul, Korea, ends on September 2, 2012.
 
 
GALERIE EMMANUEL POST / BERLIN
Grolmanstrasse 46
10623 Berlin
T +49.30.21460830
 
 
 
 
 
 
Kavi Gupta BERLIN
 
 
Angelina Gualdoni, Pink Sifter, 2011
 
Angelina Gualdoni
Pink Sifter
Acrylic and oil on canvas
86x71cm (34x28in)
2011
Courtesy of Kavi Gupta CHICAGO | BERLIN
 
 
ANGELINA GUALDONI
Channels
 
July 6th to July 28th 2012
 
Kavi Gupta BERLIN is proud to present the solo Berlin debut exhibition of New York based artist Angelina Gualdoni. Entitled ''Channels'', the exhibition is a new body of abstract paintings that refer back to landscape (channel as in a water-way), and illusion (a medium who channels voices), while continuing a pictorial interest in the absence/void spaces. Beginning by wetting raw canvas, Gualdoni provides pathways, or channels, for paint to collect or flow, which then isolate as chipped fragment-like masses; they are voids that become presences through value manipulation, flipping figure and ground relationships, or alternately through a decorative building up of paint. ''Channels'' will be on view until July 28th, 2012.
 
Angelina Gualdoni (b. 1975 in San Francisco) lives and works in New York. Gualdoni's solo exhibitions in the past couple of years include ''Shadows Slipping'' (2010) at Asya Geisberg Gallery in New York, ''Proposals For Remnants'' (2009) at Kavi Gupta Gallery in Chicago, and In The Shadow Of The Radiant Halflife'' at Dogenhaus Galerie/Jochen Hempel in Leipzig. Gualdoni has been included in recent museum group shows including the Queens International 2012, Queens, NY (2012); ''Without A Trace'' (2010) at the Orlando Museum of Art, ''Constellations: Paintings From The MCA Collection'' (2009) at the Museum Of Contemporary Art in Chicago, and ''Future Tense: Reshaping the Landscape'' (2008) at the Neuberger Museum in Purchase, NY. Other notable exhibitions include ''In Side Out'' (2010), curated by Eli Ping for Susan Inglett Gallery in NYC, ''Blood Meridian'' (2007), curated by David Hunt for Galerie Michael Janssen in Cologne, DE, and ''El Dorado'' at Cherry & Martin in Los Angeles. In years past, Gualdoni has been the recipient of multiple grants and other awards, including the Artadia Artist-in-residence at ISCP in New York (2009), the Pollock-Krasner Grant (2007), and the Artist Pension Trust (2005).
 
 
Kavi Gupta BERLIN
Kluckstraße 31
10785 Berlin
Germany
+49 302 180 77 48
 
 
 
 
 
 
MAERZ MOLDE – Molde, Norway
 
 
Terry Nilssen-Love, Turn around, 2012
 
Terry Nilssen-Love
Turn around, 2012
acrylic on canvas
80 x 80 cm
Courtesy of Maerz Molde, Molde, Norway
 
 
TERRY NILSSEN-LOVE
 
July 13 - August 26, 2012
 
The British-Norwegian  artist Terry Nilssen-Love will open his solo exhibition in the Norwegian gallery Maerz Molde Friday 13 July 6pm. The exhibition will be on until 4 August. The artist will on this occasion be showing new acrylic paintings on canvas.
 
Whilst the work from Terry Nilssen-Love over the last few years has moved in a more free direction, as opposed to the earlier more geometrical structured compositions, what has continually occupied him has been the search for a balance between order and chaos and how far to move in either of these directions.
 
Perhaps this is a natural problem he shares with many other painters as part of the process experienced whilst moving towards the "finished" work.
 
The question as to when a painting is finished is a difficult one to answer ?– the "final" brushstroke before signing the work is a myth perpetuated in novels. Perhaps a painting is finished when one simply stops in order to move on. Inevitably the next painting will be a continuation of the last, and therefore all paintings must represent a documentation of an ongoing process; so what is a finished and what is underway?
 
Nilssen-Love  does not want to start and finish and then to start again. He works on several paintings at the same time. The dialogue takes place not only between him and a painting, but takes place also between one painting and another, or between several works.
 
Sometimes one feels like the circus performer whose act involves keeping several plates spinning on a row of poles, i.e. which one requires attention next?
 
He rarely starts with an idea as to how the painting should be – if he does, he feels  it never works, and any preconceived idea has to be abandoned or destroyed; at this point the painting starts to gain its own identity.
 
Destruction is an important part of the process as is the accidental, though ironically one may ask just when is an accident an accident?
 
And how does one introduce the element of surprise? Jazz, in the meaning of improvised music, has always been an essential part of his life and is reflected in his thoughts towards painting. The critic Whitney Balliet defined jazz as "the sound of surprise". Contemporary European improvising musicians have long since used the definition "instant composition" – i.e. a work is composed as it is performed. One or more performers play together without any preconceived idea or musical notation. A successful composition comes about as a result of drawing upon experience and with an openness to a given situation. Could this approach be applied to the making of a painting?
– with a bit of luck.
 
Taken from the artists statement at www.terrynilssen-love.com.
 
 
MAERZ MOLDE
Fjordgata 5
6413
Molde
Norway
 
Opening hours;
Mon – Fri 12.00 – 18.00
Sat12.00 – 15.00
T +47 9001 4832
 
 
 
 
 
GALERIE MARTIN JANDA, Vienna
 
 
Benjamin Butler, The Pastel Forest, 2012
 
Benjamin Butler
The Pastel Forest, 2012
oil on linen
190 x 240 cm
Courtesy of Galerie Martin Janda, Vienna
 
 
BENJAMIN BUTLER
PASTELS
 
27 June to 30 July 2012
 
Galerie Martin Janda is showing Benjamin Butler‘s new works between 27 June and 30 July 2012.
 
Benjamin Butler’s second solo show at Galerie Martin Janda includes new works titled Pastel Forest which are closely linked to the content of his works of the past few years.
 
Butler, however, is not only interested in the content of the recurring motif of trees, which he seizes, modifies and abstracts in his paintings. It serves rather as a broadly defined metaphor. His depictions of trees play with formal possibilities and evoke associations with art movements such as Impressionism, Modernism, Pop Art and Minimal Art. However, Butler does not quote what is tested and established in art history; he sounds out and questions the boundaries of art and decoration. “Take him as an abstractionist or as a representationalist, his art is good either way. Whether you see him as a detached and canny commentator on art history and the vicissitudes of its styles and conventions or as an almost nai¨ve sensualist intoxicated with the fluidity of paint and the beauty of color, the work proves you right.“ (Barry Schwabsky)
 
The exhibition is dominated by pastel shades. Benjamin Butler uses a monochrome palette in his large-format oil paintings while the small-format paintings reveal a wider range of bright shades: vivid blue, pink, violet, yellow and green. The leafless branches form patterns, grids and lines, and are frequently abstracted to the extent that only the painting’s title will allow associations with the motif. “I hope that the paintings will evoke mixed feelings for the viewer. They are made in a straight forward manner, simple and modern, and because of the heightened palette, they have the potential to be read as repulsive, or even embarrassingly beautiful.“ (Benjamin Butler)
 
A comprehensive publication on the works of Benjamin Butler, which includes a text by Barry Schwabsky will be published in July 2012.
 
Benjamin Butler was born in Westmoreland (USA) in 1975 and lives and works in New York.
 
 
GALERIE MARTIN JANDA
Eschenbachgasse 11
A-1010 Vienna
 
 
 
 
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